Posts tagged scala

Background Developing an application following the reactive principles can be quite challenging, specially when working with third party libraries, as these may not be fit for purpose, i.e. blocking operations. In such cases, the first challenge is to find the blocking operation and the second to confine it so that it does not affect the rest of the […]

This post presents some features of functional programming with Scala. In essence, functional programming is about programming by making use of mathematical functions. All well-known features of functional programming are just a result of using mathematical functions, e.g.: referential transparency immutable state higher-order functions pattern matching I especially like ‘pattern matching’ as it allows for a […]

Background This post describes my experience playing around with Scala and some of its concepts like tail recursion and futures. It also offers an opportunity to see how a memory leak can happen and how to analyse it. I created a simple web crawler that takes a seed link (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk) and then, recursively (using tail recursion), collects all […]